How to Hit a Slice with Joaquin Niemann

This LIV star teaches Dylan Dethier how to hit a slice.

You ever like hit a big slice? >> Big slice. All right. >> Giant slice. >> You pros forget how to hit the banana slice. >> I just go I need to go back to play with my dad and he will show me. >> Exactly. >> He has that shot. >> What are you doing? You’re just aiming way left and then >> just aiming over these three way left and you know all the angles to the left and just like when you hit a slice with a racket then it’s you know. >> Yeah. We go down to the street to the MUN and a lot of guys could hit this shot better than you can I think. But >> there we go. >> That’s pretty nice. All right. You still haven’t fixed your dad’s slice? >> No. I always try to pop him out, but he don’t listen. So, he’s like, “All right, just do your thing.” You know, >> what do you tell them? >> Every I feel like everybody has the same mistake. It’s like, I’m hitting cats, you know, I’m missing a right. >> Yeah. >> I’m going to aim farther right, you know? I’m going to farther right so I can go and try to miss a left, but then they go and he goes like this, start hitting more >> more across himself. >> Yeah. So, I’m trying to tell him to go like don’t be afraid like aim left of the target. >> Oh, interesting. >> You know, and just feel like you come from like doing an eight kind of thing. I try to make him >> So, aim left but swing right kind of. >> Yeah. Get the path more like this way. >> That’s interesting. That’s different than I feel like I’ve heard. All right. Differentics. >> He doesn’t have that movement there because he goes there and opens the face. You don’t hit it too far left because he’s going like this, you know? feel like it’s more aiming left and do kind of like an eight feeling. >> Yeah. >> From in to out, you know. >> Is that the most common miss you see with like when you play proams and stuff? Is it a slice? >> Yeah, most of the time. All right.